Transport choices should be based upon their threats and benefits, advantages and disadvantages. Closing The Driveway at particular times troubles more citizens than it benefits.
Released Jul 17, 2023 – 3 minute checked out
The dispute over closing a particular stretch of Queen Elizabeth Driveway is not about whether the city supports active transport. It’s about where and when are the very best chances for it.
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Everybody concurs that strolling, running and cycling are healthy. As a runner and bicyclist, I do not simply think in active transport; I practice it. And I support closing specific roadways to automobile traffic at appropriate times to offer more area for entertainment.
I concur with the National Capital Commission’s choice to close the Kichi Sibi Mikan (previously the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway) and the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway for active transport on summertime weekends. And I have no objection to closing Queen Elizabeth Driveway north of the Pretoria Bridge, where the effect on the neighborhood is very little.
This is not, as some individuals have actually framed it, a binary, simple ideological conversation about automobiles versus bikes. It’s an useful factor to consider about one area of roadway that serves a hectic area and is house to a significant occasion centre, and about making sensible traffic preparation choices that support all types of transport and take into consideration the requirements of all homeowners who reside in and are walking around the location.
Transport choices ought to be assessed based upon their threats and benefits, advantages and downsides. Closing Queen Elizabeth Driveway from Pretoria Bridge to Fifth Avenue, or even more to Bank Street, and even as far as Preston Street, and in specific closing it on weekdays and significant occasion days, hassles more citizens than it benefits.
By the method, this is not simply the random individual view of a political leader; it’s the extremely notified, evidence-based viewpoint of the expert personnel at the City of Ottawa, the specialists who handle Ottawa’s transport network.
Since of the location of the Glebe, and the area of among the city’s greatest destinations, Lansdowne Park, closing Queen Elizabeth Driveway at particular times develops considerable, often frustrating pressure on area streets. That pressure produces a bothersome logistical obstacle for emergency situation responders taking a trip into the location, increasing their action times and the threats for the pe